This is your city on driverless cars.

A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock.

https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/waymo-sf-blackout-robotaxi-traffic-jams/

Maybe allowing a private company to flood public space with a massive fleet of unmanned vehicles isn't great transportation policy. (Especially when shit happens. And shit *always* happens.)
On the other hand, we could just let the "disruptors" do exactly what they want. That usually works out fine.
@straphanger In theory we need many less vehicles operating within city limits, relying on public transportation, and or a system of rented automated vehicles. That said what we currently have doesn’t work and I like the idea of mayors who propose banning privately own vehicles within city limits, as long as infrastructure exists to support transportation, which might be a solution to the situation you highlighted as long as infrastructure meets the required standard and need.